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European University Initiative in the Context of Digital Transformation: A Discussion Paper Cover

European University Initiative in the Context of Digital Transformation: A Discussion Paper

Open Access
|Dec 2024

Abstract

The digital transformation (DT) has undoubtedly become one of the main challenges of modern organisations, including universities. The discussion is oriented towards the new learning tools, contexts, needs and skills needed on the institutional level, academic teachers and in connection to the demands of the labour market. This paper does not refer to potential ethical and safety risks but rather tries to understand how universities should approach those challenges from the perspective of their key missions, including education as a top priority. To do that, we use the example of the concept of the European University Initiative (EUI) case, as it has become one of the flagship programmes of the European Commission supporting the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and European Research Area (ERA). With the purpose to build inter-university campuses, joint degree programmes, support seamless mobility, strengthen socially relevant research, promote sustainability etc., they also have become the lighthouses of the green and digital transformations. In this paper we aim to start a discussion about what digital transformation means in the context of teaching and try to define the most urgent questions that will help to define the future university model responding to the dynamically changing learning context.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/quageo-2024-0044 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103
Language: English
Page range: 65 - 73
Submitted on: Oct 30, 2024
Published on: Dec 31, 2024
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
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© 2024 Joanna Morawska, Elias G. Carayannis, published by Adam Mickiewicz University
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